32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division
The 32nd SS Volunteer Grenadier Division "30th January", which had fought against the Slovak National Uprising in 1944, and it became the 86th Regiment. The division's other units were formed from the SS Artillery Training and Replacement Regiment in Prague and the Pioneer School. A significant cadre came from Hungarian and Romanian fascists who had joined the SS, but their numbers are unknown.
The division fought as part of the V SS Mountain Corps, on the Oder front, just north of Fürstenberg and in the Battle of Berlin. The division was destroyed in the Halbe pocket, but parts of the unit surrendered to the Americans at Tangermünde.
The division's name referred to 30 January 1933, the date that Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany.
The division's insignia was a Tyr rune, denoting a spear.
Commanders
Order of battle
- SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 86 Schill
- SS Volunteer Grenadier Regiment 87 Kurmark
- SS Volunteer Artillery Regiment 32
- SS Panzerjäger Battalion 32
- SS Füsilier Battalion 32
- SS Flak Battalion 32
- SS Pioneer Battalion 32
- SS Signals Battalion 32
- SS Supply Regiment 32